Current events: The IMFC take on Budget 2013, the M-408 fiasco and saying no to a casino in Ottawa

On March 21, 2013, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty introduced the new federal Budget. On the very same day, Motion 408 – a statement to condemn sex-selective abortion in Canada – was quietly discarded by a parliamentary sub-committee that declared it to be “non-votable.”

On March 24, a group of community health agencies in Ottawa came together to condemn a casino in Ottawa.

A grab bag of issues: Here is all you need to know about this busy week in Ottawa.

March 27, 2013 | by IMFC staff
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Endnotes

  1. The Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. (2007). What’s at the heart of the Canadian Family? p.9. Retrieved from http://www.imfcanada.org/issues/whats-heart-canadian-family
  2. Miedema, D. (2013). 40 years below replacement. Ottawa: Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. Retrieved from http://www.imfcanada.org/issues/forty-years-below-replacement
  3. Mintz, J.M. (2008). Taxing families: does the system need an overhaul? Ottawa: Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. Retrieved from http://www.imfcanada.org/issues/taxing-families-does-system-need-overhaul
  4. For more complete budget highlights, see Government of Canada. (2013). Budget 2013. See section Budget in Brief. Retrieved from  http://www.budget.gc.ca/2013/doc/bb/brief-bref-eng.html
  5. Government of Canada. (2013) Budget Plan 2013. Chapter 3.5 Supporting families and communities. Retrieved from http://www.budget.gc.ca/2013/doc/plan/chap3-5-eng.html
  6. Warawa, M. (2013). Motion 408’s call to condemn discrimination against women and girls is definitely in order. Retrieved at http://markwarawa.com/media_/mark_in_the_news/motion-408-s-call-to-condemn-discrimination-against-women-and-girls-is-definitely-in-order
  7. Ibid.
  8. Parliament of Canada. (2007). Votable and non-votable items of private members’ business. See Non-votable items. Retrieved from http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/House/compendium/web-content/c_d_votablenonvotableitemsprivatemembersbusiness-e.htm
  9. Ibid.
  10. These are the Centretown Community Health Centre, Eastern Ottawa Community Resource, Lowertown Community Resource Centre, Orléans-Cumberland Community Resource Centre, Pinecrest Queensway Community Health Centre, Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre, Sandy Hill Community Health Centre, Somerset West Community Health Centre and South-East Ottawa Community Health Centre.
  11. Productivity Commission of Australia. (1999a). Australia’s gambling industries, Report No. 13, Volumes 1-3, p. 23. from http://www.pc.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/82552/gambling1.pdf
  12. Wood, R.T., Williams, R.J. (2009, January). Internet gambling: Prevalence, patterns, problems, and policy options. Final report for the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre. Guelph, Ontario. Retrieved from http://www.gamblingresearch.org/content/research.php?appid=2285